Binary builds and workspaces

[Per Liden]

Hi Aleksey,

On 2017-12-07 20:42, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Even though zgc/zgc forest have no ZGC sources yet, our CI builds it now nevertheless, like it
> builds Shenandoah and Epsilon.

Cool!

>
> This gives us two artifacts:
>
>  *) OpenJDK workspace:
>      https://builds.shipilev.net/workspaces/zgc-zgc.tar.xz
>
>    This should be helpful for Europe-residing folks, because cloning the entire monorepo workspace
>    would take a while otherwise (>1 hr, by my last measurement). The tarball is rebuilt every night,
>    and trivial "hg pull" / "hg up" would bring it to the most up-to-date version. One-liners are in:
>      https://builds.shipilev.net/workspaces/README.txt
>
>  *) Binary builds:
>      https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-zgc/
>
>    x86_64 is built natively, other targets are cross-compiled. Builds are updated every night,
>    build frequency might change in future, in both directions. I would try to make build logs
>    available too, for easier debugging.

I noticed that you have aarch64 and IA32 builds there. Just a heads up, 
the ZGC code base only supports Linux/x86_64 and Solaris/Sparc at this time.

cheers,
Per

>
> Cheers,
> -Aleksey
>